Youths are suffering from kidney cancer due to increasing smoking habits, obesity, and high blood pressure problems. At the same time, due to increasing pollution in metro cities, this problem has become more rare. Experts say that till 10 years ago, more than 90 percent of the patients coming to hospitals in Delhi were above 60 years of age. People's lifestyles deteriorated over time.
Due to all these factors, now more than 40 percent of the patients coming to the hospital are 40 to 50 years old, while 10 years ago this figure was less than 10 percent.
What do experts say?
Dr. Hemant Kumar Goel, head of Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital's Urology Department, said that till 10 years ago, 90 percent of the patients were over 60 years of age, but currently the number of patients above 60 years of age decreased to 60 in the present time 60 years old. It is up to a percentage. About 40 percent of the patients are coming at the age of 40 to 50 years. Most of these patients are in the advanced stage. Doctors say that its symptoms do not appear in the initial stages.
Men's risk of kidney cancer is high
Dr. Himanshu Verma, head of the Department of Nephrology at Safdarjung Hospital, said that men are three times the possibility of kidney cancer than women.
Keep these things in mind
Get regular checking after the age of 50
There is a pain in the stomach or waist, if blood comes in urine, then be cautious.
Get the check done after 40 suffering from smoking, obesity, and high blood pressure.
If someone has been suffering from this disease in the family, then get the investigation done after 40.
Timely diagnosis is necessary
If the kidney cancer gets caught in the initial stages, the chances of recovery increase.
Doctors say that a patient of about 45 years reached Safdarjung Hospital to get treatment in urine and treatment with another complaint. He was investigated by Dr. Himanshu Verma's team in the Department of Nephrology. Investigations found that the patient had only one kidney. Cancer has also become in them. This case was quite challenging. The patient's kidney could not be removed. In such a situation, he was admitted to the hospital and after a thorough investigation, the said part of the cancer-affected kidney was removed. After the surgery, the patient came on dialysis.
The patient was admitted to the hospital for two months. During this time, Urin slowly started passing. Later, after a thorough investigation, the doctor discharged him. At present, life is living normally. Doctors said that the case was in the initial phase. If the patient comes in the advanced stage, it would have become difficult to save.
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